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  • Scott Perry joins push to revoke 17th Amendment, strip voters of electing senators

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  • State legislatures can be highly gerrymandered, and it would also eliminate primaries for the senate candidates which which means senators would functionally become whoever the party leadership wants per state.

  • Explain Like I am a child ... taxes. I get you pay taxes on goods you buy everyday. And you get said goods by paying a one time fee. But how come on a home after being paid off I still pay taxes......

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  • Plenty of people have tried to make that argument. Those people typically wind up spending years of their life in prison once their delinquent taxes have built up enough (and losing the property that they were trying to avoid paying taxes on, also).

    Anyone who tries to tell you that they've successfully argued in court that the law doesn't apply unless you sign a contract agreeing to it is either just plain lying or got lucky on a small enough case that the judge or prosecution just didn't want to deal with the headache.

    By the way, keep in mind that property rights aren't a naturally existing phenomenon. You own your home because the state agrees that you are the rightful owner. Is a different system theoretically possible? Sure, probably, but the state-based enforcement of property ownership is the one that exists today.

  • Bill banning Pride flag passes Idaho House

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  • High school sports (plenty of towns put up flags or banners on their streetlights commemorating senior athletes), "generic" seasonal banners (this is definitely just "winter" and not Christmas, wink wink), some towns might put up flags for fairs or similar events on their streetlights. Generally things that might or might not technically count as flags, and aren't really not political but count as non-political to the people in charge of enforcing this proposal.

  • Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights

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  • There isn't one centralized database with that information for everyone. Each state, and even inside one state each county, maintains their own records, so someone who is born in Florida, gets married in California, and then has a kid born in Oregon would need to contact each of those states for proof of those events if they lost the original copies for whatever reason. There is a national system that can (mostly) check against those state and local level records, but it also has limitations. Passports and birth certificates can be proof of citizenship, but don't prove where you live at the time of the election even if you do have one on hand.

    The voter registration process already gives the state enough information to determine whether an individual is eligible to vote in that state. For federal elections (which are still run by the states, just for federal level positions), that includes confirming that the person is a citizen, but each state is able to decide whether to allow noncitizen residents to vote on local government issues or not.

  • Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights

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  • For the most part - it works exactly like what you described. What kinds of ID are valid, and to some extent whether you are required to present one at all, depends on which state you live in.

    The fake mustache double voter would have to know the details of another person who is already registered to vote (only some states allow same-day voter registration) and gambles on the other person not showing up to vote.

    One big difference between the US and a lot of other democracies (when it comes to voting laws) is that the US doesn't have any form of universal national identification documents - pretty much everything is issued on a state-by-state basis, and with very few exceptions those state level IDs don't actually say anything about citizenship - noncitizen permanent residents are allowed to get driver's licenses.

  • Plug-in hybrids use three times more fuel than manufacturers claim, analysis finds

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  • I have a different model, but it more or less vacuum seals the gas tank to mitigate that - it is still wouldn't last forever, but without air to react with the aging process is significantly slowed down.

  • Good old CEO

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  • Have you ever been stuck on a problem (school, work, personal, whatever) and as soon as you go to ask someone for help, you start explaining the problem and figure it out? You basically use the duck for that - explain the problem out loud to "someone else" and sometimes you'll see what you were missing.

  • 60 Minutes Removes Trump’s Threat to ‘Walk Away’ from Interview During Corruption Questioning

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  • No, because the settlement was a bribe, not a decision that CBS made because they were concerned about losing the lawsuit. The owners were trying to complete a merger that required governmental approval and decided that paying that settlement would be better than getting the merger blocked.

  • Hate's a Rhymes-with-witch

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  • It doesn't say or suggest that the person voted for Biden in 2020.

  • In Singapore, owning even a junk car is now considered a luxury

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  • That says it's for 10 years, so "only" 1/10th of that each month. Still very much a thing only businesses and very well off people can realistically afford though.

  • This is what alignment does to your brain [Dungeons & Dragons/Pathfinder]

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  • You're both right - Order of the Stick is the webcomic hosted at GitP. The site also hosts one of the more (possibly most?) active 3.5 discussion forums around these days, with lots of reference threads and class handbooks, rules discussions, and occasional people coming in for build or DM advice.

  • Child dies from complication of measles contracted years earlier

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  • They almost certainly caught it from someone who was old enough to have been vaccinated but wasn't. If vaccination rates continue to decline like the current republican administration wants, more and more infants will contract measles even if their parents plan to vaccinate on schedule.

  • Waiter, waiter, more ransom notes please! [Lancer]

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  • Yes, it's a very solid tactical combat game. It has room for character RP moments but the meat of the system is in the mech design (which gives you plenty of opportunities to make adjustments to your build) and on the turn-based combat map. It's less crunchy than Battletech (you aren't tracking damage to specific limbs, etc) but IMO the action economy is usually more interesting than 5e - there's a lot more opportunities to build for "when you do X, if condition Y is true, you can follow up with Z for free" combos.

  • RFK Jr wants bright artificial dyes out of food. Are Americans ready to let go?

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  • The Prop 65 warning is on so many things because it's way cheaper to put the label on everything, regardless of whether it's technically true or not, than it is to run the tests to prove that the specific substances called out are not present.

  • AOC Comes Under Fire For “Rapist” Tweet Targeting Trump, Sparks Calls To “Sue Her”

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  • CBS's settlement was a bribe, nothing more and nothing less.

  • Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit

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  • Because they spent an entire math class period earlier that week explaining to the students what "reasonableness" was going to mean on their next math test, and in the context of (I'm guessing 3rd or 4th grade) arithmetic the important thing they're trying to teach is that 5/6 is a larger fraction than 4/6. I agree that the question could be worded better (change the last two sentences to "Marty says he ate more pizza. Is this possible?") but I strongly suspect that the missing context from their class - or maybe even at the beginning of the test - explains enough to get the answer the teacher was looking for here.

    Yes, one kid starting with a larger pizza changes the situation, but fundamentally that's an algebra question, not a "learning fractions" question.

  • Led by RFK Jr., Conservatives Embrace Raw Milk. Regulators Say It’s Dangerous.

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  • Plus, even if all illnesses could somehow be limited to just the people who actively drink it, they give it to their kids who have no say in the matter.